Category: UP Tech Tips

Greetings! Today’s #uptechtip comes from my friend Melinda Lease , a graphic designer and creative manager who lives here in Portland. She wrote a great, quick guide for you Mac users out there on using the built-in Preview tool in MacOS to resize, crop, adjust colors, or even cut-out elements in your images. You can even…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Mac Preview is a Mini-Photoshop

This week’s #uptechtips is all about getting started with podcasts. Podcasts are internet distributed, episodic audio or video programs. They are almost always free. What makes podcasts truly special is that the low-cost and resources needed to make a podcast allows a wide variety of people to start making their own podcasts and share their knowledge…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Intro to Podcasts

Today’s #uptechtip came out of a meeting I had with a faculty member who incorporates frequent, low-stakes writing into his course – pages a week, reams per semester. To save paper and make life easier, he was looking for a way to transition this activity to the digital realm. One obvious solution would be to…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Moodle for Low Stakes Writing

In the world of higher-ed, one thing that never changes is that we do a lot of reading. These days, many of us are doing more and more of our reading online. Whether it’s a blog post on an iPad or a summary of a scholarly article on a laptop, we’re spending more and more of…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: How to Read the Internet

At UP, we’re fortunate to have MediaSpace, which is a great video streaming and sharing site. It’s the home for our academic and course videos and is easy to manage access to for students or embed into Moodle courses. But sometimes we have video assets we want to share far and wide, on social media…Continue Reading UP Tech Tip: Share MediaSpace to Social Media Sites